Disgusting
שֹׁעָרStrong’s H8182shoar (sho-ar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shoar is the Hebrew word usually translated “rotten”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.”
Meaning
- Horrid, disgusting, vile, offensive
How it's translated
- rotten 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שֹׁעָר shoar · disgusting
horrid, disgusting, vile, offensive
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “disgusting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISGUSTING, participle present
tense
- Provoking aversion; offending the taste.
- adjective Provoking dislike; odious; hateful; as disgusting servility.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.